Pakistan will try to make Trump pay

January 19, 2018 08:30

Before the news cycleand the president himselfgot consumed with the new White House tell-all last week, Donald Trump made a good foreign policy decision, albeit seemingly in haste.

The administration announced it was suspending security assistance to Pakistan, on the grounds that the country is continuing to arm, assist, fund, and provide sanctuary to a wide array of Islamist militant groups that are murdering US troops and their allies in Afghanistan.

Well-placed sources involved with calculating the relevant funds have told me that this was not a planned policy and took the other agencies, not to mention the Pakistanis, by complete surprise.

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